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CAMERON COUNTY PRESS..
H. H. MULLIN, Editor and Proprietor
Published Every Thursday
EMPORIUM. • PENNSYLVANIA
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On a cold clay the hobble skirt ha»f
Its advantages.
London should not strain Its back
breaking mosquitoes on ft wheel.
Even nursing bottles In New York
give short measure. This Is really
the limit.
The whirling dervishes of Scrutarl
ero out on a strike. This carries the
strike business to the limit.
Aviation appears to be a good deal
like playing the game at Monte Carlo.
Few people know when to quit.
Several prominent flying men have
agreed to quit sensational perform
ances. That is getting down to earth.
Eggs have advanced In price, but
let us hope that the hens will not
become too proud to keep on lay
ing.
And now more nian will be able to
arise in the still, small hours and go
through the pockets of his wife's
trousers skirt.
Whoever began the custom of spell
ing "shiver" with cnly one "v" had
no adequate conception of the horrors
of a cold street car.
If the surviving aviators should hold
reunions at the close of the years
would they be able to get special
rates from the railroads?
Two persons in Baltimore were mar
ried just for fun. This is another evi
dence that tlie accepted standards of
humor need revision upward.
Uncle Sam has just paid $58.50 for
clothes worn in the Civil war. This is
setting a good example to the men
who never pay their tailor bills.
A bride of seventy-eight in Brooklyn
Is accused of eccentricity. The fact
that she is romantic enough to be a
bride ought in Itself to prove the
charge.
English scientists are now discuss
ing a beer without alcohol. They
should bear In mind the discomfiture
which overtook the discoverers of
odorless limburger.
The Evansville (Ind.) man who Is
suing for a divorce because his wife
bathos her pet dog in the dishpan
Is unreasonable. She might have
•compelled him to do it.
One thousand copies of the book
written by the king of Italy were gob
bled up as 6oon as they were placed
on the market. Tor successful au
thorship try being a king.
It took 12,299 hunters to kill 5.50 l
deer in Maine during the recent open
season. If the hunters had used clubs
Instead of guns they might have
brought down a few mor~.
A woman in a Pennsylvania town
found a gold nugget in a chicken's
craw. Poultry will now get dearer
than ever with the prospect of every
hen's being Its own gold mine.
Science, says an expert, will make
men In the future centenarians. But
It Is Impossible to please everybody.
This news will raise a calamity howl
from the pessimists and undertakers.
A New York woman who has been
•rrested for bigamy says she married
her first husband for spite and the
second on a bet. We think the joke
was on the man who enabled her to
win the bet.
They have accused the family fly,
the night-singing family mosquito, ol
Infecting with tuberculosis, and now
they say the family cat must go for
the same reason. But when the last
is abolished there will come the threat
of the rat with the bubonic plague
®erm. No matter which way we turn
we aro confronted with a new peril.
A physician in Washington, who
evidently is obsessed with the idea ol
being the benefactor of his race, de
clares that silence Is the best cure foi
nervous disorders In women. Bui
with all his science he doe 3 not know
the nervous aex, If he thinks a dic
tum like this, after centuries of of
tensive and defensive- volubility, U
goiag to make them stop talking.
It is said that whistling is now a
fad In Washington society among th«
women. The pessimists, who hav«
been unable to shock the country with
their walls over the terrible deteriora
tiou of the raco caused by cigarette
smoking among women, will now hav«
a fresh outlet for their vociferous
calamity outbursts. And s a result
the women will, as long as It pleases
them, keep on whistling.
A man in a Philadelphia theater
tore to pieces a big hat which hid his
view of the stage. Of course, tbey
Jad to arrest him. but no one will
doubt that he a martyr to th«
sac red cause of our common hu
manity
A man In Plttsburs pleaded that h«
beat his wife only when she needed It
Put. as If found when she had hlni
sent to I there Is nothing aboul
which are to utffrawful as
tue » '» o' others for theli
moral
WAIT FOR THE FACTS
THEN THE TARIFF CAN BE IN
TELLIGENTLY REVISED.
I
Report of Board at Present at Work
on the Subject Should Be Con
sidered Before Congress
Takes Action.
There Is just 0110 way in which the
tariff may be properly revised and
that into revise it in accordance
with the facts of production cost as
determined by a board of expert in
vestigators.
No matter whether this or that
schedule of the present Payne law ia
believed to be at variance with the
Republican protection principle, no
matter whether this or that schedule
is alleged to work hardship to the
ultimate consumer, there is just one
way in which those schedules can be
revised to the ultimate good of scien
tific and equitable tariff making and
that is in the manner we have Just
indicated.
Tho government has a tariff board
which is probing to tho quick the
various elements in production cost
both here and abroad. This board
has not gone about its work super
ficially or empirically after the man
ner of the ways and means commit
tee. It is prosecuting its investiga
tion in the true scientific spirit.
Naturally, such investigation takes
time; but when once the facts are ad
duced tho people may rest assured
that they are right.
With such a board at work upon the
tariff and with its promise of reports
during the coming year, it must ap
pear the height of folly, demagogy
and what not else, for newspapers
and "statesmen" of a certain type to
clamor for immediate revision of the
suspected schedules.
Granting that these schedules re
quire revision, are congress and its
committees in any better position to
accomplish an equitable and scientific
adjustment of the duties than they
were last year? Assuredly not. If
anybody, outside the tariff board, has
been gathering authoritative tariff
data, determined by exhaustive first
hand research. th 6 country has yet
to hear of it.
Whatever revision were made be
fore the report of the tariff board
would therefore be made in the dark
just as its predecessors. A reduction
of certain duties, would, to be sure,
meet with the favor of the unthinking
who have been taught by demagogues
to believe that any kind of tarifT re
vision is all right if it is "downward."
But such unfounded tinkering would
just as surely be inimical to the cause
of honest, scientific tarifT making.
To revise any schedules now, with
the report of the tarifT board still
pending, would not only appear as a
repudiation of that exceptionally able
body, but would be a blow to the
future authority of similar expert
bodies and the cause of scientific,
non-political revision which they rep
resent.
What They Will Try to Do?
The total output of tin plates and
terae plates in 1909 was 1,373,011,000
pounds. When the Democrats were
last in power they vociferously pro
claimed that it wa3 impossible for
Americans to make tin plates In com
petition with the Welshmen, but their
assertions and predictions have been
completely refuted by the event. The
United States is now manufacturing
all the plates required for domestic
consumption, and the American people
are paying less for them than they did
when the tarifT was increased to pro
tect and promote the industry. The
Democrats now announce that they
will lower the duty on tin plates. It
will be interesting to note what they
will try to do, and what tho large num
ber of workingmen who subsist by the
Industry will think of the effort to take
away their jobs by turning tho trade
over to foreigners.—San Francisco
Chronicle.
Move for Currency Reform.
The action of the national board of
trade, in convention at Washington,
which indorsed a scheme of mone
tary reform conforming closely to
that outlined by United States Sena
tor Aldrich. is indicatlvo of crystall
ing sentiment on that subject- The
idea favored, and which has been ap
proved by some important commercial
bodies, including the chamber of
commerce of the state of New York,
the Merchants' Association of New
York and the New York produco ex
change, is that embodied in the Aid
rich statement, with modifications.
The attempt to organize throughout
the country a monetary leaguo of
business men may lead to the devel
opment at still strongßr sentiment In
that direction- This Is quite proper.
The great difficulty in bringing about
currency reform has been to unito
financial opinion in support of a prac
ticable system.
Facing More Than Superstition.
Champ Clark wants to increase the
w*ys nnd means committee of tho
next Democratic hocse of reprwtent
atires from 13 to 14. He admits
that be is superstltlos'.a and does not
want togo up against a "hoodoo"
ncmbrr. Hut taa Democrats will
tare to fnce more tangible troubles
thar.it the 13 snperrtit'on. Cni? of
them w?l! be the difficulty, already In
evidence, of gettin.i together on the
tariff qwert.'cG
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1911.
MERIT IN LONGWORTH BILL
Measure May Not fie Perfect, But la
at Least Good Foundation
to Work On.
The present Republican congress
has the opportunity before it to place
the handling of the tariff question on
a business basis, where it should bo.
The Longworth bill presents the mat
ter in a tangible form, and while It
may be defective in some respects
It at least furnishes a good founda
tion to work on.
The bill will be criticized in at
least two particulars. It gives the
tarifT commission, which it creates,
power to summon witnesses but not
to compel them to testify. Further
more, aside from its annual reports,
the commission is not to submit in
formation to congress unless congress
asks for it. Unless these restrictions
are eliminated it is more than doubt
ful that the measure wil prove satis
factory to the country, if putin
operation.
How will it be possible fcr the com
mission to get all the information
needed for the framing of just im
port duties unless it can compel men
to testify even though their financial
Interests can best be served by con
cealing information? It can report in
stances of refusal to testify to con
gress for such action as that body
may wish to take but what probabil
ity of adequate majority action
would there be in an ordinary case of
this kind?
There has been too much framing
of tarifT laws on the basis of confi
dential information. The public is
distrustful of this manner of doing
business.
Necessarily, information not of a
guilty nature, which would injure the
business of those giving It if it be
came known to their competitors,
should be safeguarded. Aside from
this, however, the work of the tariff
commission should be aboveboard.
The public is clearly entitled to the
facts regarding the differences be
tween the cost of production at home
and abroad, and their relation to the
tariff. The country can then decide
whether the duty levied is a fair one
or not. " the facts ascertained by
the commission are placed on file i
a public record, as fast as collected,
they will be available to every mepi
ber of congress and every citizen, at
all times. Then it would not matter
so much if congress should forget to
ask for the reports, or if the house
and the senate should not agree to
ask. There would always be some
body to remind congress, and the pub
lic as well, of its delinquency.—
Cleveland Leader.
A Permanent Tariff Commission.
Congress now has before it the
first draft of the measure favored by
th-e administration for the creation of
a permanent tariff commission, which
shall carry on with greater assur
ance of continuity and an entire ab
sence of partisanship the investiga
tions now being made by the com
mission appointed by the president.
The present body can exist solely by
the sufferance of each successive
congress, whereas the commission
contemplated in Representative Long
worth's bill would do for the scien
tific study of the costs of production,
so far as they enter into the problem
of tariffs, very much what the inter
state commerce commission does in
its own appointed field.
Doubtless there are many details
in the bill that will need perfecting
and will call forth criticism, but the
principle embodied in the measure
is one to which the Republicans are
now committed, and which the senti
ment of the country will cordially
approve. The Democrats in the pres
ent congress may for partisan pur
poses put obstacles in the way of the
measure, but if it shall be passed
I they will find themselves In the com-
I ing session in the uncomfortable po
sition of opposing the first long step
which has been made toward a scien
tific method of tariff revision.—Chi
cago Tribune.
Let Them Fight It Out.
There seems to be no end of trouble
for the Democrats, now that they
are coming Into some responsibility.'
A Texas representative In congress
with the suggestive name of Dies Is
out with an open letter to his fellow
Democrats In which he attempts to
set forth that all the good jobs In
the way of committee appointments
and the like In the next house have
been "Bwiped" by a coterie of Demo
crats who came early and appor
tioned the spoils to Buit themselves.
And Mr. Dies has a good deal to say
about "restless Agulnaldoes" who
were propitiated by being handed out
liberal doses of patronage, "trading,
log-rolling and Intimidation," "ar
rogant political legerdemain," and so
on. And this is Democrat against
Democrat. Republicans have no oc
casion to interfere in any such fam
ily row.
Tho editor of Collier's Weekly has
not yot made up his mind as to what
would be the wisest procedure for
the Republicans in regard to the
tariff. Some of us suspected that the
editor of collier's WS«H born with his
mind made up on every question,
pest, present or to be.
If tho new Democratic committee
on waya and means is for free trade
let it say so promptly and squarely
In case it iB for protection in any de
gree tho party must propose to shift
its position to Republican ground.
MONARCH'S GREAT DIAMONDS
Magnificent Stonea Set In Crown and
Scepter of the King of
England.
London. —The larger of the two
great Cullinan dlafhonds, which Is offi
cially known as the "Star of Africa,"
has been set In the king's scepter.
The smaller of the two diamonds is
The King's Scepter.
in the imperial crown, just above the
ermine band. Both stones can be tak
en from their settings in crown and
scepter when those symbols of power
are not in use and made to form a
pendant for the queen. The "Star of
Africa" weighs carats; the
smaller stone, 309 3-16 carats. The
setting of the diamond in the crown,
of the diamond in the scepter and of
the diamonds as a pendant was in
trusted to the famous crown jewelers.
The great difficulty they had to face
in altering the scepter to receive the
"Star of Africa" was caused by the
fact that the general ornamentation
had to be kept intact.
SECRET ORDER'S BIRTHPLACE
Old School House at Eagle Harbor,
Mich., Where Knights of Pythias
Ritual Was Written.
Charlevoix, Mich.—All over the
country there are school buildings
that have been famed for one thing
or another. The Eagle Harbor school
house is famed as being the birth
place of the Knights of Pythias. It
was in this schoolhouse in 1858-9 that
Justice H. Rathbone, a teacher then,
wrote the ritual of that order.
Eagle Harbor is the name of the
settlement where this schoolhouse is
located. It is a typical frontier, log
cabin settlement, a relic of olden
times, situated about ten miles from
the point of the upper peninsula of
Michigan on tlie shores of Lake Supe
rior. It was in this country that cop
per was first discovered in northern
Eagle Harbor School House.
Michigan but in later years about the
only people living there are fishermen,
a light-house keeper and a few hunt
ers and trappers. In the summer time
It is a very popular place for camping
parties.
. Last Survivor of '76.
Columbus, O. —The last survivor of
the Revolutionary war was John Gray,
•who died in Noble county, Ohio, aged
104 years, on March 26, 1868. Me
came to the Buckeyt state enrly in
Its existence. For some years before
he died he drew an annual pension of
SSOO from the government. Gen. John
A. Bingham, having gotten a special
act through congress lor this. Gray's
father was killed at the battle of Still
water, and he took his placo in the
army, being only 16 years old then.
He served through the remainder of
the war. His military record is on
file at tho office of tho state commis
jioner of soldiers' claims.
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palu. It neutralizes the acid and drives
out all rheumatic poisons from the sys
tem. Write Prof. Munyon, 63d and Jeff
erson Bts., Phlla., Pa., tor medical ad
vice, absolutely free.
Nervous Women
will find that Nature responds
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tive effects, and the helpful
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NOTHING AT ALU.
Brown —What your son doesn't know
about horse racing isn't worth know
ing.
Walker —And what he does know
about it isn't worth knowing, either.
Great Baseball Play.
"What was the greatest baseball
play you ever saw?" asked a friend of
Governor-elect John W. Tener.
"The greatest play I ever saw," said
he, "took place in an amateur game
on a town lot at Charlerol. The teams
were playing on a wet field and an
outfielder who wore a derby hat went
after a high fly. He came to a little
pond and tatyng his eye off the ball
made a Jump to cross it. As he was
leaping the ball struck him on the
head, went through the crown of his
hat and lodged there. The base run
ner was out and the fielder had not
touched the ball with his hands. Can
you beat it?" —Washington Corre
spondence Pittsburg Dispatch.
The Lord's Advertisements.
Willie had been to see his old
nurse, and she had shown him her
treasures, Including some very strik
ingly colored scripture texts which
graced her walls.
A few days afterward his aunt gave
him a dime to spend at a bazar.
Seeing that he seemed unable to find
what he wanted, she asked him what
he was looking for.
"I am looking for one of the Lord's
advertisements, like Mary has in her
room," said Willie/
RESULTS OF FOOD.
Health and Natural Conditions Com#
From Right Feeding.
Man, physically, should be like a
perfectly regulated machine, each
part working easily in its appropri
ate place. A slight derangement
causes undue friction and wear, and
frequently ruins the entire system.
A well-known educator of Boston
found a way to keep the brain and
the body in that harmonious co-opera
tion which makes a joy of living.
"Two years ago," ahe writes, "being
in a condition of nervous exhaustion,
1 resigned my position as teacher,
which I had held for over 40 years.
Since then the entire rest has, of
course, been a benefit, but the use of
Grape-Nuts has removed one great
cause of illness in the past, namely,
constipation, and its attendant evila.
"I generally make my entire break
fast on a raw egg beaten into four
spoonfuls of Grape-Nuts, with a little
hot milk or hot water added. I like
it tertremely, my food assimilates, and
my bowels take care of themselves.
I find my brain power and physical
endurance much greater and I know
that the use of the Grape-Nuts has
contributed largely to this result.
"It is with feelings of gratitude that
I write thia testimonial, and trust it
may be the means of aiding others ta
their search for health." Name
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THIS ad. is directed at the
man who has all the
business in his line in
this community.
<i Mr. Merchant —You say
you've got it all. You're sell
ing them all they'll buy, any
how. But at the same time
you would like more business.
<J Make this community buy
more.
C| Advertise strongly, consist
ently, judiciously.
•I Suppose you can buy a lot
of washtubs cheap; advertise
a big washtub sale in this pa
per. Putin an inviting pic
ture of a washtub where
people can see it the minute
they look at your ad. Talk
strong on washtubs. And
you'll find every woman in
this vicinity who has been
getting along with a rickety
washtub for years and years
will buy a new one from you.
<J That's creative business
power.
OURj AD. RATES ARE RIGHT
—CALL ON US
'Copyright. IW9. by W. N. U. %
Word-of-Mouth
Advertising
Passing encomiums, only over
your store counter, about the
quality of what you've got to
sell, results in about as much
satisfaction as yourwife would
get if you gave her a box of
cigars for Christmas.
Advertising in This Paper
talks to everybody at once and makes
them talk back with money.
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